Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Fg Innovation Company Limited

Masayuki Hoshino

Shohei Yamada

Hiroki Takahashi

Hidekazu Tsuboi

Liqing Liu

Kazunari Yokomakura

A terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus efficiently communicate with each other. A terminal apparatus receives a first DCI and determines transmission of a first PUSCH. The first PUSCH is scheduled by the first DCI, a value of a first PUSCH procedure preparation time for the first PUSCH is a first value in a case that a first condition is not satisfied, and the value of the first PUSCH procedure preparation time is a value acquired by adding a second value to the first value in a case that the first condition is satisfied. The terminal apparatus determines the transmission of the first PUSCH in a case that a number of symbols between the first DCI and the first PUSCH is equal to or greater than a number of symbols corresponding to the value of the first PUSCH procedure preparation time.

Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, and communication method

A terminal apparatus is provided. The terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive (i) a radio resource control (RRC) message including first configuration information and (ii) downlink control information including a first field via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and a transmission unit configured to perform one or more repetitive transmissions of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on the first configuration information and the first field. The first configuration information is for configuring at least one of a starting symbol of a time resource corresponding to an index indicated by the first field, a number of symbols allocated to one PUSCH corresponding to the index, and a nominal number of repetitive transmissions corresponding to the index.

Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus and communication method for repetitive transmission of PUSCH

A terminal apparatus includes a reception circuitry configured to receive a DCI format, and a transmission circuitry configured to repeatedly transmit, on a PUSCH, a transport block scheduled by the DCI format, wherein a first number of repetition transmissions, a second number for a symbol number of a start symbol, and a third number of consecutive symbols are given based on the DCI format, and the number of slots used for repetition transmission of the transport block is determined based on the first number, the second number, the third number, and the number of symbols per slot.

A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter with a first information element structure to define how and where to search for PDCCH candidates of a search space set, receiving a second RRC parameter with a second information element structure to define how and where to search for PDCCH candidates of a search space set, and a search space set corresponds to two types of search space set, wherein the first information element structure is capable of indicating of which one of the two types the search space set is, the second information element structure is only capable of indicating one fixed type.

User equipment, base station, and method

A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter for configuring one of a first repetition transmission type and a second repetition transmission type, and a transmitter configured to transmit, on a PUSCH, a transport block scheduled by a DCI format. The transmitter performs, by applying the repetition transmission type configured for the first RRC parameter, a repetition transmission of the transport block.

A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit which receives, from a base station apparatus, a physical downlink control channel including downlink control information in a search space specific to the terminal apparatus; and a control unit which determines the number of bits of a time domain resource allocation field in the downlink control information. The time domain resource allocation field is a time domain resource allocation field for a physical downlink shared channel. A default table indicates a time domain resource allocation configuration for the physical downlink shared channel. When a parameter is not received, the number of bits of the time domain resource allocation field is determined based on the number of the in the default table.

Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus and communication method

A terminal apparatus of the present invention receives setting of an initial DL BWP by using an RRC message, the setting of the initial DL BWP comprises setting a first parameter and a second parameter of a CORESET #0, a value of an identifier of the CORESET #0 is 0, the first parameter represents the size of the CORESET #0, and the second parameter represents the size of the initial DL BWP. The terminal apparatus of the present invention receives a DCI format that schedules a PDSCH in an active DL BWP, and identifies, based on a field in the DCI format, a resource block set to which the PDSCH is allocated. A value of the field is determined based on the size of the DL BWP, the start resource block, and the number of consecutively allocated resource blocks. The size of the DCI format in a USS is determined based on the size of the CORESET #0, and when the field is applied to the active DL BWP, the size of the DL BWP is the size of the CORESET #0.

Base station device, terminal device, and communication method

A terminal apparatus receives a higher layer parameter and a PDSCH, and generates a HARQ-ACK codebook and transmits the generated HARQ-ACK codebook on a PUCCH. In a case that a first parameter is configured, a first HARQ-ACK codebook and a second HARQ-ACK codebook are generated, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH A, and the second HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH B. In a case that the first parameter is not configured, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is generated, and the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit the HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to the PDSCH B.

Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit

A terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus efficiently communicate. A terminal apparatus including a receiver configured to receive an RRC message including first configuration information and to receive DCI on a PDCCH, a determination unit configured to determine a time parameter for transmitting a PUSCH, based on a bit sequence indicated by a first field of the DCI, and a transmitter configured to transmit the PUSCH, based on the time parameter. A relationship between the bit sequence and the time parameter is defined by a first parameter group in a case that a first condition is satisfied and that the first configuration information includes the first parameter group and the relationship between the bit sequence and defined by a second parameter group in a case that a second condition is satisfied and that the first configuration information includes the second parameter group.

A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive an MIB that configures a first CORESET, receive an SIB1 that configures a second CORESET, receive first information that configures an initial UL BWP and second information that configures an additional UL BWP, and receive a first DCI format that schedules a PUSCH in a common search space; and a transmission unit configured to specify a set of allocated resource blocks based on a first field included in a first DCI format and transmit a PUSCH in an active UL BWP, the active UL BWP being either the initial UL BWP or the additional UL BWP, the first value indicated by a first field is provided based on the size of the initial UL BWP, a first start position that is a start position of a set of allocated resource blocks, and the number of first resource blocks continuously allocated, and the common search space is used for a random access procedure.

A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive a configuration of an initial uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) and a configuration of an additional UL BWP via a radio resource control (RRC) message and receive a random access response (RAR) message including an RAR UL grant; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in an active UL BWP, wherein one of the initial UL BWP and the additional UL BWP is activated as the active UL BWP, the PUSCH is scheduled by using the RAR UL grant, a first field included in the RAR UL grant is used to indicate frequency resource allocation of the PUSCH, and whether the first field is to be truncated or whether a bit is to be inserted into the first field is determined based on a bandwidth of the initial UL BWP.

A terminal apparatus includes a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) parameter and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including a downlink control information (DCI) format and scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The transmitter is configured to transmit the PUSCH with frequency hopping within one slot. The RRC parameter indicates one or a plurality of frequency offset values. The PUSCH includes a first frequency hop and a second frequency hop within the one slot. In a case that a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with or other than a temporary cell-radio network temporary identifier (TC-RNTI) is added to the DCI format, a frequency offset between the first frequency hop and the second frequency hop is based on a size of an initial uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) or the RRC parameter, respectively.

To efficiently transmit a sounding reference signal. One or more downlink BWPs are configured in a serving cell, one or more uplink BWPs are configured in a serving cell, each BWP of the one or more downlink BWPs is identified by a downlink BWP index, each BWP of the one or more uplink BWPs is identified by the uplink BWP index, and in a case that one of the one or more downlink BWPs configured is activated in a serving cell, one of the one or more uplink BWPs configured is activated in a serving cell, and an SRS transmission in one or more serving cells of a plurality of the serving cells is triggered, the SRS for the BWP indicated by the uplink BWP index activated in the serving cell activated is transmitted.

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Masayuki Hoshino